The Russian sociologists, together with scientists of others specialties are certainly involved in the process of search of the mechanism of management of the social changes also pay much attention to research of the issues designated above, including, to studying issues on integration of various social groups into the processes of preparation and implementation of the state strategies, long-term plans of social and economic, innovative development of the Russian society.

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Decentralization - as a way of structuring public administration, in order to give local people and communities more control over their own affairs and to promote human development - is being closely considered for adoption by some Arab Spring countries.

Historically, there is no left- or right-wing political outlook that is more inclined toward decentralizing power to sub-national levels. Right-leaning political proponents seek decentralization because of its efficiency and ability to promote self-management. Left-leaning protagonists appreciate its propensity to create conditions which can increase shared benefits and dismantle systemic causes of poverty locality by locality, in time leading towards overall societal reform. Both political outlooks share a skepticism of centralized planning and in fact view it as a primary cause of social problems.

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The SDGs must address the current institutional failure and aim to transform governance and
institutions at all levels, to be effective, accountable and transparent, for sustainable
development. Policy and legal frameworks and institutions must be cohesive, well-designed
effective, including facing out of harmful subsidies and redesign fiscal reforms and financial
instruments, with appropriate safeguards and taking into account distributional effects, that
work in favor of a sustainable development. There must be coherence and synergies between
policies and goals. There is also a strong need for sector integration, implying that the SDGs,
should be formulated as true sustainability goals, that link social and ecological systems
explicitly.

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Stakeholder Forum has produced a 'Summary of targets from proposals in the SDGs e-Inventory under the OWG’s 19 Focus Areas'. A section is devoted to targets and indicators related to means of implementation/global partnership for sustainable development.

Summary of targets from proposals in the SDGs e-Inventory under the OWG’s 19 Focus Areas
Putting stakeholders at the core of post-Rio+20 processes

Currently, the state of financing for the implementation of development goals is far from ideal. Despite UN resolutions pledging that high income countries would work towards committing 0.7% their gross national product (GNP) to ODA, few have met this target. In 2012, net ODA declined 4% with respect to 2011 levels, themselves a 2% drop from 2010. The portion of ODA which goes towards low income countries has declined, taking the form of soft loans rather than grants. On top of this, it is not at all clear that ODA is going into poverty reduction programmes, or reaching the populations who need it most, whilst much ODA is offset by capital flowing out of low income countries as a result of unfair trade policies and investment agreements.

Structurally, the current way that means of implementation are provided is problematic. The 2008 Reality of Aid Report contends that “less than 30% of all new aid money, disbursed since 2000, was actually available to poverty reduction priorities.” As much as 20% of the funding allocated to ODA never leaves donor countries, and as noted above, a sizeable amount of aid ends up flowing back to high income countries in the form of consultancy fees and technical contracts.

In order to ensure more fair and sustainable means of implementation, International Movement ATD Fourth World presents a series of recommendations in the position paper.

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The SDGs will need community partners to support implementation at the local level. With 320,000 public libraries worldwide, and tens of thousands more school, academic and research libraries, attention should be paid to existing infrastructure and resources when considering how to ensure development information reaches and is used by individuals.The IFLA Statement on Libraries and Development sets out what libraries can bring to the table, and asks that the post-2015 development framework recognises the role of access to information as a fundamental element supporting development.
development

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Jessie Henshaw from Natural Systems Design Science at the 5th session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals.

In this video, Ms Henshaw provides the audience with a scientific perspective on the elaboration of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Save the Children promotes a holistic post-2015 development agenda that has poverty eradication at its core and is guided by universal, equitable and human rights-based approaches to sustainable development. This briefing highlights key recommendations on global partnerships for achieving sustainable development, means of implementation, needs of countries in special situations, human rights, the right to development and global governance, which are priority issues for Save the Children. The following recommendations are based on the 10-goal framework proposed in our Ending Poverty In Our Generation report.

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With a goal to Foster Dynamism and Effectiveness in Patient Data Keeping, Health Personnel Management and Distant Financial Service Delivery/Control for Community Health Systems in sub-Saharan Africa; The community Health unit database network system provides an innovation at addressing the short comings and failures in quality health care services delivery within local health units, major health centers/hospitals and the local/national/international health management divisions via the promotion of e-governance initiatives for health solutions in Africa.
As means of implementation:
The community health unit database software and its networking parameters operate at 3 objective levels:
1. Primarily: it operates as a dynamic digital data backup covering patient healthcare data, physicians medical records, personnel identities, assessments and evaluation, health unit’s work plan and health unit’s drugs dispensaries reports within a single health unit.
2. Secondarily: the software is interlinked/networked with an aggregate group of health institutions in a virtual private network (VPN) through which patient and healthcare data and other information of hierarchical order among the networked users can be shared. At this level the system is also linked up to affiliate banks and mobile telephone companies where health bills could be settled and/or savings made for future health eventualities via direct payments to the banks or via mobile airtime credits using the patients IDs.
3. Tertiary: at a national level and within sub-Saharan African countries where national and international security primes, the national ministries could be interlinked on health base e-governance measures in a culture to improve on international health service delivery, assessment, evaluation and exchanges to meet up with the global currents in healthcare development for Africa.

Besides the initiatives outright development goals, its design is structured to habitably accommodate the situational adjustment and actual needs of our local community health units within the sub-Saharan African countries including but not limited to language mutations, population class and cultural distinctions.

Also given that outside the objective focus of the community health unit database networking systems inculcates a wider range of developmental needs for sub-Saharan African countries including the spread of internet connectivity to interior localities, ICT management capacity building of community youths to manage and upgrade the system and rapid e-governance progress, the system’s facilities and requirements will ignite/facilitate a stimulated stretch of similar technologies into other sectors of the national economies such as agriculture, Education, judiciary, police etc.

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In order to inform the deliberations of the sixth Session of the UN General Assembly Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Stakeholder Forum has conducted an analysis of the proposals currently housed within the SDGs e-Inventory which relate to the thematic areas of the meeting, including Means of implementation.

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The recommendations on means of implementation presented here have been compiled from two civil society consultations conducted by UN-NGLS in 2013: a teleconference-based consultation that resulted in the report Advancing Regional Recommendations on the Post-2015 Agenda, and an online consultation on four post-2015 reports to the Secretary-General. This policy brief also draws on recommendations from the consultation that UN-NGLS undertook for the Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System in 2009 and the consultation it carried out for the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) in 2010. In addition, it includes elements from A Call for a Global Partnership for Just and Transformative Development in the Post-2015 Era by the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE).

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A brief report. The 10 presentations are linked from the blog post. Most are highly informative. Others raise grave concerns.

The apparent dominant view from the sustainability sciences from #1 still seems to be that "decoupling" is a realistic objective, if we just "innovate". If asking the hard questions suggested by #9 we'd acknowledge "decoupling" is an idea to have ever growing wealth and ever shrinking resource needs as our future plan. One of many unasked questions is whether ever larger and faster changes in how we live would become unmanageable anyway... whether we had the resources or not. http://www.synapse9.com/signals/2013/03/23/sci-for-un-sd-goals/

Review of Science for UN’s SDG’s « Reading Nature's Signals

Please see attached piece in the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature. It appropriately makes the case for integrating the current, three-pillar UN sustainable development governance structure into a nested arrangement, with the economy serving society, which itself lies within the Earth's systems. The piece correctly notes that we cannot reach critical social goals such as alleviating poverty without at the same time addressing environmental well-being. The nesting of economy under society, with both nested within care for the Earth's systems that support us all, is the structural approach we should take moving forward.

Linda Sheehan
Earth Law Center, California, USA

Policy: Sustainable development goals for people and planet : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Planetary stability must be integrated with United Nations targets to fight poverty and secure human well-being, argue David Griggs and colleagues.

Stakeholder Forum and partners have launched the Sustainable Development Goals e-Inventory, a new online tool to crowdsource proposals on global goals for the post-2015 period.

The SDGs e-Inventory provides all stakeholders with a platform to outline their vision for post-2015 global goals.

It aims to help stakeholders (including governments and intergovernmental organisations) become better informed about the wide range of proposals, expectations and evidence-based arguments on SDGs and other global goals being proposed for the post-2015 development framework.

It will also provide capacity building resources to help stakeholders fill knowledge gaps around the intergovernmental process, develop their own proposals, build alliances, and develop advocacy strategies.

The e-Inventory will provide stakeholders with the data to undertake analysis to identify trends, commonalities and knowledge/evidence gaps. Stakeholder Forum will also conduct and disseminate regular analysis to inform the intergovernmental process on SDGs.

Overall, the e-Inventory hopes to improve the likelihood of achieving a SDGs framework which fully integrates the three dimensions of sustainable development.

To find out more visit http://www.SDGseInventory.org

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